Hartford Courant: Travel

We’ll have morning fog but quiet weather for the next couple of days. Today and tomorrow look beautiful with lots of sun, warm summer temperatures and falling humidity. We bring in a chance for rain on Friday with mostly cloudy skies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The death of 3-year-old Leon Lapierre, whose family had been monitored by child-protection authorities, has been ruled a homicide.Leon, of Stafford, died in April of acute methadone intoxication, the chief state medical examiner's office said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

As students and teachers prepare for the first day of school on August 30, Schools Superintendent Tom Moore said the lack of a state budget has created uncertainty and trepidation from parents, but students will see their teachers on the first day of school.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Even as Connecticut faces a deficit of $3.5 billion over the next two years, the state is poised to give away a projected $4.1 million in unclaimed sales tax during next week's sales tax holiday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Carl Yastrzemski stood at Fenway Park Wednesday among his 1967 Red Sox teammates, laughing, joking with Ken Harrelson. Yaz took a seat, peered into the cameras and in his signature abrupt way gave us his view of the 50th anniversary of the "Impossible Dream." "What do I think?" he said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

An American service member was killed Wednesday, and an unspecific number were wounded, while battling Islamic State loyalists in eastern Afghanistan. Members of the Afghan army also sustained casualties in what the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Great American Eclipse is nigh! Millions are expected to pack the so-called path of totality, or the swath of the United States that will be able to experience the complete solar eclipse.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The last thing Mark Purcell wanted to do was go back on his word. Not to anyone, but especially not to adults who fought to overcome stigma and self-doubt. "Two years ago, at the YMCA, we promised people a program," Purcell, the program facilitator for Read To Succeed, said last week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There won’t be any problems from the weather if you’re out and about this evening or tonight. Temperatures will fall into the low/mid 60s with mainly clear skies. You might even see a shooting star or two as we have the Perseids Meteor Shower going on currently.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The driver charged with killing a woman at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to police records released Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Barack Obama just made Twitter history. The former president tweeted a Nelson Mandela quote on the day of violent chaos in Charlottesville. He included a photo taken of him in 2011 on a visit to his daughter Sasha’s school in Bethesda, Md.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Seeing as how Chick-fil-A's headquarters are located in Atlanta, it's only logical that the fast-food chain have a booth at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the stadium that's set to open for Falcons and Atlanta United games this month.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

All this fire and fury from business executives in response to President Donald Trump’s inexcusable remarks about Charlottesville seems, on the surface, like yet another passing episode in a failing presidency.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In a time of uncertainty, leaders in Hartford public schools, nonprofit agencies and the philanthropic sector say they are committed to the city’s “community school” strategy that has been cited as a national model.On Wednesday, members of the Hartford Partnership for Student Success, a coalition...

Minutes before boarding a flight back to his native Guatemala, a New Fairfield father learned a federal appeals court had granted him a last-minute stay of deportation. Joel Colindrés was at the airport with his wife and two young children when he got the news, his attorney, Erin O’Neil-Baker,...

It was 2007, the recession was mounting, and Mike Stacy's prizes were drying up. Since 2003, Stacy — a morning show host for WRCH Lite 100.5 — had been offering unclaimed prizes to families in need around Christmas time.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After a week of incendiary language from President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, administration officials on Sunday tried to tamp down fears that the two nations are on the brink of a nuclear war.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Great American Eclipse will pass across the United States Aug. 21. Here are some questions you might be asking along with their answers: What’s an eclipse and what’s so special about this one?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Three executives who sat on President Donald Trump's manufacturing council have quit following the events in Charlottesville, Va., and the president's slow crawl to explicitly condemn white supremacists. The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Known for her emphasis on community, Nan Glass is remembered by friends and former colleagues following her death on Thursday.Glass, 88, died on Thursday, according to an obituary.Former town manager Ron Van Winkle said he met Glass when he started working for the town in the mid-1980s, when she...

Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their concrete bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Two of the White House's top corporate advisory groups disbanded Wednesday in a direct affront to President Donald Trump, as the fallout from his controversial statements about who was to blame for violent protests involving white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, cascaded beyond Washington....

An independent investigator has determined that the fire department suffers from a fractured leadership team and perceptions of racism and favoritism that are worsened by the "racial insensitivity" of Chief Thomas Ronalter.The monthslong review did not document racism in hiring or discipline,...

Last weekend's violence in Virginia, sparked by neo-Nazis and white supremacists upset about the proposed removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, has hastened the removal of Confederate monuments across the South.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Todd McCann's 1964 Chevrolet Corvair is not among the model years targeted in Ralph Nader's book, "Unsafe at Any Speed." To the frustration of Corvair fans everywhere, however, the consumer activist's indictment of the vintage compact is so widely known that any mention of the car brings the book...

Maine's governor says taking down statues of Confederate figures is "just like" removing a monument to people who died in the 9/11 attacks. Republican Gov. Paul LePage made the comments during an appearance Thursday morning on WGAN-AM when asked for his reaction to the deadly violence in Charlottesville,...

HARTFORD — It was a smaller stage than he was used to, but Nick Fradiani was glad to be in the "lion's den" on the eighth floor of Connecticut Children's Medical Center.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Since before the Revolution, northwestern Connecticut residents have traveled to Litchfield to settle their legal disputes and answer for their crimes. On Aug. 25, more than 250 years of history and legal tradition will end when the old stone courthouse on the Litchfield green closes for good....

As the total solar eclipse approaches, demand for safe viewing glasses has spiked and experts are warning the public to be wary of dangerous knockoffs. Glasses that are safe for directly viewing the sun must meet the International Organization for Standardization’s standard, and will indicate they...

From truck pulls to lumberjack shows, pig races to rodeos, Connecticut's fair season — with all its country lore and exhibition — is about to take off. There will be imaginative food combinations, midways, livestock presentations, and, of course, a slew of country music concerts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share